District:
Boston Public Schools
Location:
Hyde Park, Massachusetts
Type of Engagement:
Comprehensive partnership including customized professional learning for principals, coaches and teacher leaders.
Outcomes:
Long-term consultation and professional learning focused on culture and coherence.
Becoming a strong speller requires much more than memorizing words. Good spelling is a result of good teaching.
Is it reading to learn or learning to read? In reality, these two processes develop together, not one after the other. As children are learning how print works, they are also learning from what they read. They are making sense of language.
What do you listen for during comprehension conversations? The answer to this question might be the key to facilitating conversations that evoke and foster deep, meaningful, stimulating discourse during whole group, small group, and individual conversations.